schools libraries group presentation - 'enquiring minds - the road to learning
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Presentation given at the CILIP Schools Libraries Group Conference, Derby 2014. Blog post about the talk can be found here: http://www.nickdennis.com/blog/2014/04/17/enquiring-minds-the-road-to-learning/TRANSCRIPT
Enquiring Minds
@nickdennis #SLG2014
Nick Dennis Berkhamsted School
The Road To Learning
I’ve been to the crossroads and I’ve seen
the devil there.
Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies, 1996
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aigle_dore/6225529941/in/photostream/
…we can travel without maps
for a while
E P Thompson
Benefits• High portability &
accessibility
• Disperses information quickly
• Promotes community formation
• Promotes and enhances dialogue
Threats• Promotes distraction
• Reflects a loss of control over information
• Challenges traditional systems and ideals
• Requires new systems of organisation and makes old systems obsolete
The Printed Book
From Book to Text
The Codex
We may begin by asserting that, according to our view, the first requirement of every
lexicon is that it should contain !every word occurring in the literature of the
language it professes to illustrate
Schooling to Education
Vittorina da Feltra
Games based learning
MOOCs
MOOCs
HPQ as a way of stretching
students
From knowing to ‘Dare to Know’
Dr Nick Dennis !
Email: [email protected] Twitter: @nickdennis LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/in/nickdennis Blog: http://www.nickdennis.com/blog
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Notes for SLG download
p.7, 8 + 9 from Dr Bill Rankin, Director of Education, Apple
p.17 Expresso Book Machine video
p.23 from Mick Walters, Thinking Allowed
p.34 The Gorilla Experiment video
p.35 from Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s presentation at #TLAB14.